Contesting aging & loss /
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| Imprint: | Toronto, Ontario, Canada ; Tonawanda, N.Y. : University of Toronto Press, c2010. |
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| Description: | xvii, 209 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8065998 |
Table of Contents:
- The experience of loss and the range of contestation / Janice E. Graham and Peter H. Stephenson
- Part I Overview: paradigms and perspectives
- Age and time: contesting the paradigm of loss in the age of novelty / Peter H. Stephenson
- Part II Local understanding and knowledge about aging
- how seniors see it
- Losing and gaining: about growing old "successfully" inthe Netherlands / Margaret von Faber and Sjaak van der Geest
- Empowering knowledge and practices of Namaqualand elders / Robin Oakley
- La Buona Vecchiaia: aging and well-being among Italian Canadians / Sam Migliore and Margaret Dorazio-Migliore
- Part III Illness, indignity, and stigmatization
- Drunks, bums, and deadbeats? A biographical perspective on gender, aging, and the inequalities of men / Cherry Russell
- Dignity and loss: implications for seniors' health in hospitalization narratives / Christina Homes and Peter H. Stephenson
- Part IV Embodiments and disembodiments
- Embodied selfhood: ethnographic reflections, performing ethnography, and humanizing dementia care / Pia C. Kontos
- The science, politics, and everyday life of recognizing effective treatments for dementia / Janice E. Graham
- Part V Practices and policies
- "Them" and "us": building appropriate policies from fieldwork to practice / Janice E. Graham
